There is more to this Japanese
picture postcard than meets the eye initially.
Of course, the lovely coastal scene from a rugged shore near Nagasaki
is a bonus!

As it turns out, it is a card written
on a ship bound from Japan to Hong Kong and
put into the mail in Hong Kong on arrival.

The text of the message is quite
interesting.
I've captured most of it as follows:

"Sunday April 15thDue
to arrive Hong Kong Tuesdayhave
had a lovely time soFar.
I love the life on boardship.
It was bitterly cold atYokohama
& was sleeting whenwe
arrived we have been almostfrozen
ever since, it is warmertoday,
thank goodness. Can'tsay
I'm enthralled with Japanso
far, but it is not fair to judgewe
had such vile weather. Much
love Edith"*

The addressee was Miss [Edith] Noble,
Queen's College, Barbados, British West Indies.
I believe this would have been an uncommon destination for such a cover
in 1923.

The stamp is, most likely, the 4c.
carmine-red from the 1921 George V series (SG 120).

There is a clear strike of the Hong Kong
CDS.
The small bit of a second CDS probably resulted from an overlap by
an efficient clerk lining up several cards for speedy cancellation.